To researchers and other interested parties, the Norwegian Association for Public Health is now accepting nominations for the Dementia Research Award 2026. You are hereby encouraged to submit proposals for current candidates. Please complete the attached nomination form and send to dist@nasjonalforeningen.no Deadline Wednesday 15 October 2025. The award is a recognition that is given on the basis of one or…
A big thank you to all young research talents at the Faculty of Medicine. UiB Ferd, in collaboration with UiBdoc, YoungResearchers@UiB and other local associations for early-career researchers, has planned an event on September 23rd at 11:00–13:00 at Ulrikke Phils-hus with the theme "Together we shape…
Support in career choices and applications
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In the recommendations to K2 following the Research Council's evaluation in 2024, the committee writes the following: “The committee recommends developing a leadership programme in which junior and senior staff jointly take on leadership of different organisational tasks”. This is advice we should try to follow up on in the coming year. In this context, it is relevant to recall what career support already exists for PhD candidates and early career researchers at our faculty.
UiB Ferd Career Centre for Young Researchers offers a range of services to support career development both within and outside the university. The centre targets PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, researchers and associate professors at UiB. Ferd organises courses and events for researcher development and career learning, and also offers individual conversations with professional career advisors. Examples of offers include externships with job shadowing in the private or public sector. Ferd also offers e-courses that can be taken at your convenience, such as: FERD100: Creating an Academic CV and Navigating the Funding Landscape.
The Postdoctoral Program at the Faculty of Medicine aims to support postdoctoral fellows in developing a successful academic career, build a community of early-career researchers, and make the faculty an attractive place to work for postdoctoral fellows. The program starts a new round every two years. It is aimed at those who are in “postdoctoral” or “researcher” positions with an affiliation to a research group at the Faculty of Medicine. The next round will start in September 2026, with space for 20 participants.
The Research and Innovation Department (FIA) at UiB is developing a range of sessions with application readings, including ERC, MSCA and collaborative projects in Horizon Europe. This can provide good insight into how such applications can be designed.
UiB also has the more competitive Momentum program, which supports the career development of selected early-career researchers. The application deadline for the 2025/26 round was in March this year. In addition to a series of seminars, each participant receives a grant of NOK 100,000 for mentoring, travel, networking, research stays, conferences and other career-enhancing activities. Marta Kaminska from K2 is participating in the current period.
Finally, I would like to welcome everyone to the Institute's Day in Bikuben, Monday, September 8, 11:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
UiB processes large amounts of personal data and information, both within research and administration. As an employee, you must know how personal data is processed and how you can ensure information security, both for you as an individual and for UiB. All our employees carry out a…
Registration form for personnel for OSKE12 H25 Date: December 4, 2025 Time: 07:00–approx. 17:00 Register here: Registration form for personnel for OSKE12 H25 Do you have any questions or are you curious about something? Do not hesitate to contact us! Email: martine.baarholm@uib.no — Tel: 555…
Read the full story here: Call for applications for 2026 – Olav Thon Foundation | Research support
🎻 Aulaseriene: TrondheimSolistene + Ola Kvernberg 📍 University Auditorium in Bergen, Museplassen 3 🕖 Friday 5 September at 7:00 PM 🎶 The program offers: Buy tickets here! TrondheimSolistene & Ola Kvernberg — Aulaseriene
Information letters about the Vestlandslegen project will be published here regularly: Information letter about the Vestlandslegen project | Vestlandslegen | UiB
Date: September 10, 2025Time: 09:00–10:30Location: Digital via TeamsCourse leader: Marthe Rekdalsbakken Are you responsible for content in research groups, projects or centers at UiB? Then this course could be for you! On September 10, a digital training course will be held in the use of W4 page templates for the research area. The course…
The Department of Biomedicine invites K2 project leaders (PIs) to accept students for practical laboratory work through the course BMED322 (Methods in Biomedical Research). This is a mandatory course for new Master's students (MSc) that must be completed before starting the main project in the Master's degree. Students participate…
The University of Bergen organizes an annual conference on research ethics. This year's event will take place on October 3rd in the Great Hall, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and has the theme "Research Ethics After AI". This year's conference will be held in English. The program for the day is available at…
We want to share big and small things from everyday life at K2 – whether it's academic highlights, exciting projects, new publications, events, or pleasant glimpses from the working environment. Do you have something you would like to share with colleagues? Please send an email to Ingri.lunde@uib.no with:…
How do we expose political rhetoric? What happens when the election campaign moves to TikTok and YouTube? How much do advance votes really mean? UiB's election experts provide answers. The expert group at UiB Researchers Ruben Mathisen, Yngve Flo, Jana Birke Belschner, Jens E. Kjeldsen, Erik Knudsen and…
Dear all, We are pleased to present the upcoming activities at the Neuro-SysMed Graduate School in Translational Neuroscience! Please note that the deadline for registration in Studentweb is September 1st for all courses in the fall semester, if you are a student and want ECTS credits. The fall semester 2025…
CCBIO901: Junior Scientist Symposium (JUSS) (3 studiepoeng) Symposiumdatoer: Dette seminarserien gir en flott mulighet til å knytte kontakt med andre unge forskere, få fagfellevurderinger og erfaring med muntlige presentasjoner og akademiske diskusjoner. Faglig ansvarlige/koordinatorer:Mari K. Halle (mari.halle@uib.no) og Vladan Milosevic…
Dear alumnae and alumni, After the very successful start of the formation of an alumni network last April in Oslo, the German Embassy now wants to strengthen and further develop this network. It is therefore a great pleasure for us to be able to invite…
The 31st NOFE conference with the theme "Transforming epidemiology with AI" will take place on 29–30 October 2025 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Bergen. The early bird registration deadline is already 23 August! Registration – NOFE An updated program is available here: Program – NOFE Young Investigator Day (YID) is being organized
Please remember to register your vacation – Mia will send reminders. Thanks to Ingvild for stepping in, and welcome back to Mia!
K2nytt has a new design – thanks to Øyvind, Lene, and Ingri!
Department Day: September 8th, 11:30–16:00 at Bikuben.
Congratulations to Eystein Husebye – elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters!
Feel free to suggest honorary doctorate candidates – young, research-active individuals with strong international impact.
Have a great weekend!
The Pedagogical Academy at MED is pleased to invite all employees to a seminar! Date: 23.09.2025 Time: 12.00 – 15.30 Location: Armauer Hansens hus, auditorium. Diversity, artificial intelligence, better contact with students and practical learning are some of the topics we…
Do you use or are planning on using Biorender in your research? To decrease costs a number of research groups and researchers have organized to purchase individual user licenses as a group.
Global Societal Challenges (GSU) aims to encourage academic meeting places and collaboration across faculties and is announcing seed funding for this purpose. A minimum of two faculties must be involved in the collaboration on global societal challenges, and the activity must be related to the theme of inequality.The supported activities should aim to develop interdisciplinary research projects, and the projects should include concrete plans for applications to external funding sources and further research collaboration.
Ida Wiig Sørensen holds a 20% position as Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine 2 (K2). She is a specialist in medical genetics and Head of Section at the Section for Clinical Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics at Haukeland University Hospital.
Dear colleague, UiB HR is now requesting an overview of unregistered vacation days at the department, along with a plan for follow-up. This creates a significant amount of additional administrative work. Therefore, please register your vacation as soon as possible in the Self Service Portal. If you need to...
Today, we have launched new pages for the areas of Research (uib.no/research) in both Norwegian and English, as well as pages for research groups, research projects, and research centers. The pages have been launched...
Before the summer is over, we would like to remind you that nominations are now open for this year’s awards for research and innovation, including young researchers. The awards will be presented as usual during the research conference in November. We hope you...
The Research Council has provided support for two new research projects at the Faculty of Medicine through the FRIPRO scheme.